Paul D. Smith wrote: > I'd installed the Debian RPM and I used rpm -i to install the SRPM, > which put the source in the SOURCES directory and the spec file in the > SPECS directory just fine. > > But, when I try to run the "rpm -bp" I get this error: > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > error: cannot open rpm database in /var/lib/rpm
Quelle strange. rpm wants a rpm database just to apply patches to a build tree? It must be on drugs. Maybe it wants to do source dependancy checking though. Does --nodeps help? Could you send me the srpm in question? I'll see if I can fix this. > I don't want to do anything else with RPM, I just want to get this > source set up correctly. It's annoying that I appear to need a Packages > DB just for that, but I apparently do. > > Does anyone know how to construct a legal Packages file (I guess it can > be empty--not contain any packages) on my Debian (woody/testing) box? I don't include a valid rpm db in the rpm package to prevent inaverdent installation of rpm's. But you can create one with rpm --initdb. -- see shy jo
